Latest Victor Davis Hanson Quotes from Interviews

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• Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Disgusting, Ideological

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party follows it.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Party, Thinking, Democratic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't make fun of Romney for saying Russia was an existential enemy. He didn't have a hot mic exchange with a Russian President saying that he would be more flexible with the Russians after the elections.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Fun, Enemy, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of democracy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Democracy, Moments

  Source: www.npr.org

• There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common culture in the history of civilization that's pulled it off. A lot of the times, we want perfection. If we're not perfect, we're not good.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Civilization, Perfect

  Source: www.npr.org

• If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, People, Congress

  Source: www.npr.org

• If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  White, People, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

• Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

• It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or man-caused disasters. It would be as if we were looking at [Adolf] Hitler in the 1930s. And we were afraid to say that he was a Nazi.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Islamic, Men, Eight

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Middle East, Realizing

  Source: www.npr.org

• This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to galvanize the country against a perceived threat has been philology.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Important, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

• I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  House, Generations, Six

  Source: www.npr.org

• We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Defense, Taxes, Situation

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

• The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Morning, Jobs, Stanford University

  Source: www.npr.org

• [People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  People, Progressive, Clinton

  Source: www.npr.org

• In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Wall, Home, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Campaigns, Outrage, Continuation

  Source: www.npr.org

• It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Attitude, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.npr.org

• Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Wings, Cynical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com